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S. A.v SUYDAM 8: S. S. UTTER. Rack or Shelf for Stoves.

No. 242,485. Patented June 7,1881.

INVENIORS M M W ATTORNEY WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL A. SUYDAM AND SAMUEL S. UTTER, 0F NEYV YORK, N. Y.

.RAcK OR SHELF FOR STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,485, dated June '7, 1881.

Application filed February 26, 1881 (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS SUYDA'M and SAMUEL SANFORD UTTER, both of the city, county, and State of. New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Racks and Shelves for Stoves and Ranges, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of our invention is to provide for stoves and ranges a rack or shelf capable of adjustment to stand either vertically or horizontally at, in, or upon any desired location about the stove or range, and readily removable from one location to another about the same, without the aid, use, or employment of any link, lever, bracket, subsidiary arm, or supporting, sustaining, or locking device whatever.

By reason of the form of construction constituting our invention we are enabled to greatly reduce the cost of manufacture of racks and shelves for stoves and ranges, diminishing the number of parts, simplifying the construction, and increasing the facility with which the rack or shelf may be removed from one location to another about the stove and adjusted to stand in the required horizontal or vertical position when so located. All these advantages we obtain by providing at the ends of the rack or shelf a peculiar hook-joint on which the rack or shelf may be suspended when hanging vertically, while preventing the same from being detached or withdrawn when adjusted to stand horizontally, as will be more fully explained with reference to the drawings, in which Figure 1 represents the top of a range with the rack located thereon. Fig. 2 represents a section of the top of a range with a rack located upon one of its ends and set to stand horizontally. Fig. 3 represents the same with the rack or shelf adjusted to stand-vertically. Fig. 4. represents a rack having two loops or eyes, through which passes a wooden rod or bar to prevent the rusting by iron of clothes suspended thereon, as well as to increase the capacity of the rack.

It is obvious, however, that the rack or shelf may be set upon the hearth in front of the oven or at the sides, ends, or back of the stove or range at any required height from the floor; or it may be set so that its plane may be at any desired angle in any of the positions, instead of being either vertical or horizontal. It is also obvious that instead of being a simple frame, as shown in the drawings, the surface of the rack or shelf may be a solid plate having the peculiar-shaped hook ends; or it may have open-work or bars across it, as in Fi 3 at I), which will increase its capacity as a rack for drying purposes and enable its more general use as a shelf.

In the drawings, A represents a rack having its ends hooked, as at a. As shown in Fig. l, the rack is supported by resting upon the lower side of an aperture in the range-top, which affords one point of support, while the hook, bearing against the underneath surface of the flange or rim plate, affords the other point of support. As shown in Fig. 2, the rack stands horizontally, resting upon the surface of apertures provided in the end of a range, the hook ends again giving the second point of support. As shown in Fig. 3, the rack is suspended vertically, the hook end forming a pivotal point of suspension and preventing the rack from becoming detached unless it he lifted or raised, while in Fig. 4 the rack is shown detached from the range, and a wooden bar or rod is passed through loops or eyes provided at the corners of the rack, said rod or bar increasing the capacity of the rack.

It is obvious that instead of the apertures through which the rack hook ends pass being provided in the flanges, hearth, or walls of the range or stove, special lugs or projecting pieces may be provided in any location or position about the range or stove, such lugs or projections affording the necessary apertures or resting-places for the hook ends, for the stem near the hooks, or for either or both of them.

The operation is as follows: The rack or shelf is held in such a position as will permit the ends of the hooks to to pass into and through the apertures provided to receive them, and is then lowered or moved to allow the hooks to pass through said apertures, whereupon bylowering the shelf the same will swing upon the books a, or by pushing it toward the body of the stove it will stand horizontally.

In the present state of the art racks, shelves,

is to be suspended, and not a simple frame, the wall of the same is relied upon to afl'ord a second and separate point of support or rest not provided by the hook of itself. In ourimprovement the two points of support, rest, or suspension are provided in the hook, and by the hook only, whether the rack, shelf, or frame be held horizontally or vertically, and this it is which constitutes the ditferenec in construction and mechanical operation of our improvement.

Having thus described our invention, what 20 we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The rack or shelf provided with the hooks to, in combination with a perforated side wall of a stove, and with a horizontal plate thereof, 25

substantially as specified.

SAMUEL AUGUSTUS SUYDAH. SAMUEL SANFORD U'ITER.

\Vitnesses JOSHUA RosE, CHARLES LorER, 

